In this talk, I will discuss the status of various discourse particles in
Icelandic exclamatives, expressing the speaker's attitude (sympathy, joy,
surprise etc.) towards the descriptive content of the clause. These
particles are phonologically integrated into the rest of the exclamative
clause, thereby providing a window into the finer details of CP-structure
in Icelandic. Among their most interesting properties is the fact that
cannot be stacked (as only one particle per clause is allowed) and are
restricted to wh-exclamatives although Icelandic has a rich array of
non-wh-exclamatives (see Jónsson 2010).